Return-to-Office Stalwart Austin Increasingly Working From Home
Workers in the Texas tech capital came into offices more often than those in any other big US city last year, but that’s changing fast.
Downtown Austin, Texas.
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Austin, once a national leader in returning to the office, is quickly becoming a laggard.
The Texas capital, where technology giants Google, IBM Corp. and Apple Inc. have ambitious expansion plans, has seen its office-occupancy rate fall from 68% in early March to 57% last week — the biggest drop by far among the 10 major US cities tracked by security firm Kastle Systems.